Antoine Pierre Nerryier was a French advocate and statesman. He was born in 1790 at Paris and died in 1868. In 1814 he proclaimed at Rennes the deposition of Napoleon, and remained until his death an avowed Legitimist. He assisted his father in the defence of Ney, secured the acquittal of General Cambronne, and defended Lamennais from a charge of atheism. His eloquence was compared with that of Mirabeau, and after the dethronement of Charles X in 1830 he remained in the Chamber as the sole Legitimist orator.
His political services won for him a public subscription of 400,000 francs in 1836 to meet his pecuniary difficulties. In 1840 he was one of the counsel for the defence of Louis Napoleon after the Boulogne fiasco. In 1843 he did homage to the Gomte de Chambord in London, adhering to him through the revolution of 1848, and voting for the deposition of the prince-president the morning after the coup d'etat. He gained additional reputation in 1858 by his defence of Montalembert, and was counsel for the Patterson-Bonapartes in the suit for the recognition of the Baltimore marriage. In 1863 he was re-elected to the Chamber with Thiers, and in 1864 received a flattering reception in England. Research Antoine Berryer
George Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger was a French general and agitator. He was born in 1837 at Rennes and died in 1891. He saw service in Algeria, Italy and Cochin-China and was at Metz with Francois Bazaine in 1870 but escaped capture by the Germans and took part in the defence of Paris. He was appointed brigadier-general in 1880 and commanded the army of occupation in Tunis in 1884 to 1885. In January 1886 he was appointed minister of war in the Charles de Freycinet cabinet. In May 1887 he was removed from his post as war minister and shortly afterwards was arrested for attacking his successor, and in March 1888 was deprived of his command and placed on the retired list. In July 1888 he fought a duel with the prime minister, Floquet, whom he had insulted. He was popular with the people and was re-elected, but was disliked by the royalists who declared his election void. He committed suicide on September 30th 1891 in a cemetery near Brussels following the death of his mistress. Research George Boulanger
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